Ole Miss had FBI agent sweep football facility for bugs after Lane Kiffin left for LSU

Would it be shocking to learn that Ole Miss officials had someone with FBI ties help check its football facility in the days following Lane Kiffin ’s departure for LSU? Sure, if college athletics were operating in anything resembling normal times.

But with former NFL players now finding paths back to college football and Congress debating legislation that could limit coaches from leaving during a season, almost nothing feels too absurd anymore.

NCAA Created This Mess, Now LSU Set To Make Dae’Quan Wright College Football’s First NFL Returnee Walker Jones, the executive director of Ole Miss’ NIL collective, recently appeared on the "Assorted Crackers " podcast — yes, that is the name — to discuss the madness surrounding Kiffin’s exit for LSU.

During a conversation about coaches who were contractually tied to both Ole Miss and LSU, Jones revealed an unreported detail from the days leading up to the Rebels’ College Football Playoff appearance without Kiffin.

Technically, the FBI was involved.

"We actually had the FBI come through and walk the building for bugs and for everything," Walker Jones told ' Assorted Crackers '".

"We knew kind of what was in Baton Rouge, and we knew how they operated.

I remember getting on my knees and looking underneath the desk, like checking for, 'Is there some sort of bug in my office?'" PETE GOLDING DROPS UNFILTERED TRUTH ON 'EX' LANE KIFFIN, AND NCAA TAMPERING: 'WHAT HAVE WE CREATED?' So, did Ole Miss bring in federal agents to sweep its facility for listening devices, straight out of a Jason Bourne movie? Well, not exactly.

But, yes there was a search. .

On Monday, while Kiffin was fielding questions in Baton Rouge about LSU adding former NFL players to its roster, the questions in Oxford were a bit different.

What exactly happened with that FBI search of the Ole Miss football facility? Head coach Pete Golding did not deny that a sweep occurred, though he offered an explanation that made far more sense than the image of agents descending on the Manning Center with bug detectors.

"Any bowl game, playoff system, obviously you're gonna up security," Golding told reporters .

I'm not sure there was a hiring process of here we go with the FBI.

I do think we probably have a current player whose dad just so happens to work for the FBI and that lives in town.